{"id":6358,"date":"2017-06-22T15:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2017-06-22T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:37:46","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-18-24-june-1945-the-marshal-and-the-stallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6358","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 18&#8211;24 June 1945: The marshal and the stallion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6357\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6357\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6357\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6357\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WMoscowVictoryParade-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WMoscowVictoryParade-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WMoscowVictoryParade-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WMoscowVictoryParade.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshal Zhukov, riding his stallion &#8216;Idol&#8217; during the Moscow Victory Parade, 24 June 1945 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>June was the month for victory parades in places as far apart as Moscow and <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6355\">Rangoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week in the war, on 24 June 1945, <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5936\">Marshal Georgy Zhukov<\/a> rode his white stallion, Idol, in a gigantic march-past in Moscow&#8217;s Red Square. (Zhukov had begun his army career as a private in the Czarist cavalry.)<\/p>\n<p>Soviet soldiers carried hundreds of captured German banners and laid them before the Lenin Mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June was the month for victory parades in places as far apart as Moscow and Rangoon. This week in the war, on 24 June 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov rode his white stallion, Idol, in a gigantic march-past in Moscow&#8217;s Red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1097,520,556],"class_list":["post-6358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-idol","tag-moscow","tag-zhukov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}